The Mongol Rally Guys

It was a leisurely ninety-minute drive to Kutna Hora. This town situated east of Prague was famous for its silver production and craftsmanship along with its churches. The church we came to visit, the Sedlec Ossuary (a.k.a. the Church of Bones), was closed by the time we got there, so we went over to a local campground and stayed there for the night.

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Kristi, Jarrett, Collin, and I drove a couple hours to the city of Prague and checked into a hotel room there. When I parked to check into the hotel I noticed tat the other roof mount on our roof rack had also been cleaved in half. I had no more rope, so I took some duct tape and patched it together. ow that we wouldn’t be carrying any extra passengers we would at least be able to take some of the weight off of the roof rack–that should help.

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The next day was driving from Munich to Klenova Castle, the site of the Czech-Out Party (also known as the Official Mongol Rally Launch Party). How we managed to fit all of our gear plus another two people and their bag into our car I’ll never know, but we managed it. After taking the ‘Scenic Route’ through eastern Germany and the Czech Republic (thanks Google Maps!), we ended up at the camp site for the party in mid-afternoon. Along the way we had out first car-related problem when we stopped at a gas station and noticed that the roof rack had partially collapsed. The metal support bar had cleaved the foam roof mount in hal and all of the weight on that section was scraping against the roof. I got out some rope and duct tape and fixed it as best as I could.

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